"Medicine on a Grand Scale." Rudolf Virchow, Liberalism, and the Public Health (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"Medicine on a Grand Scale" explores the connections between classical liberalism and public health policy through the career of Rudolf Virchow. Virchow was the founder of modern pathology, the architect of Berlin's sewerage system, a pistol-wielding revolutionary, and a liberal politician whose concurrent service to three German parliaments totalled ninety-six years. His many-faceted activities offer a unique opportunity to situate the growth of social medicine within the matrix of liberal ideology. The book's three main chapters discuss Virchow's medical reform activities in the 1848 Revolution (starting with his famous report on the Upper Silesian typhus epidemic), his role in the canalization of Berlin, and his parliamentary activity in public health legislation and the politics of the German medical profession under the Second Empire. Its conclusion assesses Virchow's legacy to German, and broader European, social liberalism. A short study written in a robust, accessible prose, this monograph is intended not only for scholarly consumption but also for interested laypeople in the medical and public health communities.